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Investigations of Nature

Investigations of Nature

Europe in a Global World, 1450-1780
Join Domenico Bertoloni Meli on a detailed journey through the understanding and investigations of nature, when profound changes transformed the intellectual landscape and the beginning of European expansion and colonialism. His book takes us on a guided tour through history, when the religious unity of Europe was broken with huge ...
From Virile to Sterile

From Virile to Sterile

Science, Masculinity, and Modernity in Argentina, 1776–1852
As rigorous scientific and philosophical discourse circulated during the Enlightenment, aided by the Republic of Letters, a revolutionary understanding of gender emerged that would impact nation building in Europe and the Americas. In From Virile to Sterile, Adriana Novoa analyzes the cosmopolitan citizens of this metaphysical republic—an international community ...
Andy Warhol’s Mother

Andy Warhol’s Mother

The Woman Behind the Artist
While biographers of Andy Warhol have long recognized his mother as a significant influence on his life and art, Julia Warhola’s story has not yet been told. As an American immigrant who was born in a small Carpatho-Rusyn village in Austria-Hungary in 1891, Julia never had the opportunity to develop ...
William Bartram’s Visual Wonders

William Bartram’s Visual Wonders

The Drawings of an American Naturalist
Winner, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia 2024 Literary Award for Nonfiction Pennsylvania naturalist William Bartram (1739–1823) is best known as the author of a travelogue describing his botanizing journey through the American South in the late eighteenth century. Writing was not, however, Bartram’s only or even preferred method of recording the natural ...
No Longer at this Address

No Longer at this Address

Poems
No Longer at This Address explores place and the psychology of leaving through the inflammatory lens of the American West. The collection uses the lyric-narrative mode to complicate notions of rootedness and address the ephemerality of where one’s from. The poems visit bison ranches in the Rocky Mountains, converse ...
Flop Era

Flop Era

Poems
Flop Era reckons with the complications of being human, and therefore, with the consequences of being fundamentally flawed. It contends with failed potential and the certain uncertainty of the future, while interrogating the past for clues that might explain why, as the speaker bemoans, “there are never enough nails in ...
Galileo’s Fame

Galileo’s Fame

Science, Credibility, and Memory in the Seventeenth Century
From the beginning of Galileo’s career, well before the publication of the Sidereus Nuncius, his contemporaries took pains to shape his reputation and fame. They were fully aware that their efforts would shape the course of his career; they also knew that they would profit from helping him. With ...
Exoticizing Consumption

Exoticizing Consumption

European Drug Cultures, 1670-1740
Exotic drugs and spices, from tea to opium, were among the first fruits of European commercial expansion in the sixteenth century. By the eighteenth, many had become profitable products of the European empires that had spread across the globe. Often, they were objects of appropriation—substances whose curative virtues were ...
No Rhododendron

No Rhododendron

Poems
Poems by Samyot Shertok
Burn

Burn

Poems
The world is burning with fire and hatred, but at the same time it is filled with love and incredible beauty. The poems in Burn tango with why the world is so beautiful and terrible at the same time. Hamby asserts everything is a mess—how do we walk through ...
A Place in the World

A Place in the World

Stories
Collection of short stories by Bill Gaythwaite
Rehabilitate Marx!

Rehabilitate Marx!

The Czechoslovak Party Intelligentsia and Post-Stalinist Modernity
Rehabilitate Marx! conceptualizes new forms of socialist modernity during the post-Stalinist era, in the second half of the 1950s and 1960s. After the demise of Stalinism, Czechoslovak intellectuals within the Communist Party realized that the primary challenge they were facing wasn’t merely the further development of socialism, which would ...
Obligations to the Wounded

Obligations to the Wounded

Winner of the 2024 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Longlist, 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction | Winner, Minnesota Book Awards of 2025 | Finalist, 2024 Foreword Indies Award Co-winner | The Boston Globe‘s Best 75 Books of 2024 Winner | The Minnesota Star Tribune Best Book of 2024 | Co-winner, Brittle Paper 100 Notable African Books of 2024 | Co-winner, The Continent‘s Top 5 ...
Resources and Everyday Conflicts in Rural Ukraine

Resources and Everyday Conflicts in Rural Ukraine

Theorizing Social Change
Theorizing Social Change in Ukraine
Sanitizing Moscow

Sanitizing Moscow

Waste, Animals, and Urban Health in Late Imperial Russia
Waste, Animals, and Urban Health in Late Imperial Russia

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